Author: Scott Hoffman

I find one of the most valuable exercise for trading is to do “what if” exercises – to determine what I anticipate a market may do and how I will act if it does what I anticipate. This is a good observation...

The weekend Eco Fin meeting did more to raise than lower disease about the EU sovereign debt problem. There were no solutions reached, just an airing of concerns and grievances. The EU and IMF are meeting today with the Greek...

I intended yesterday’s post about the eMini S&P futures to be part one of two. If you don’t want to read that post, Tuesday had a Taylor Trading Technique Sell Short day signal. There was a TTT short sale around...

Yesterday morning I was going to write an article about a Taylor Trading Technique Sell Short day trade in the eMini S&P futures – I had gone so far as to get the charts to write it up. As the day went I ran out of...

One of the underlying themes of the Taylor Trading Technique is that markets tend to move in reaction to recent moves. A rally occurs in reaction to a selloff or vice versa. These moves occur because the end of a rally or...

Euro worries continue to increase. The EU said the Euro-Zone recovery remains “fragile” and sovereign-debt levels will continue to increase through 2012 as governments struggle in the aftermath of the recession....

The past two days I’ve written about using the overnight trade in the grain futures to get trade setups for the day session. Although the sessions aren’t as clearly delineated as the grains, the 8:30 AM CT stock...

I’m a broken record for saying it but I really like trade crude oil futures on the day the EIA releases its weekly inventory report. Regardless of what it has done before the report there’s often a breakout trade to...

Yesterday I wrote about using the night session range to trade the grain futures markets during the day session (read it here). Yesterday’s example showed how a trade developed when the morning session broke out in the...

Today was another example of how to use the overnight trading range to trade the grain futures markets in the day session – night session highs and lows can give extra reference prices to monitor market action. Friday was...